Yemen invented the coffee trade and then fell off the map. We brewed a bag of Al Mokha’s Yemen medium roast to find out what the oldest coffee origin on earth actually tastes like in 2026 — and whether the price is defensible.
The Weiss Distribution Technique was invented for espresso in 2005. Here is what a needle stirrer actually does in a V60, what the measured gain looks like, and who should skip it.
Starbucks lost roughly $105 million trying to sell coffee to Australia and closed 61 of 84 stores. Melbourne’s café culture had a fifty-year head start — here’s where it came from, and the Melbourne-founded roaster you can actually buy from in the US.
Fair Trade is an enforceable price floor with a low ceiling. Direct trade is an unenforceable promise with a very high one. Here is what each actually guarantees, and the only signal worth trusting on a bag.
Per-ounce, coffee subscriptions cost about the same as buying good bags yourself — so price isn’t the deciding factor. Here’s what you’re actually paying for, and when to cancel.
A $150 pour-over budget only works if you spend it in the right order. Here is the five-piece build we would actually buy, why roughly half of it goes to the grinder, and what we left off the list on purpose.
Brewed coffee is about 98% water, and bottled brands range from nearly ideal to actively bad for extraction. Here are the numbers the SCA publishes, what is actually in Volvic, Fiji, and Evian, and the cheaper fix that beats all of them.
A glass carafe will not change how your coffee tastes, but it decides whether your setup survives the year. Four servers worth buying, why borosilicate is the only spec that matters, and the style I would leave on the shelf.
Roseline is opening its eighth Oregon cafe in the old Starbucks at 2803 E. Burnside, with a fall target. Here’s what’s actually confirmed, why that corner matters, and the bag to try while you wait.
Grocery coffee hit a record $9.72 a pound this spring while the rest of the food aisle barely moved. Here’s what’s actually driving it — tight inventories, a late Brazilian harvest, tariffs that matter less than you’d think — and what we’re buying while it sorts itself out.